Pharma companies remain at differing levels of readiness for implementing ISO IDMP product data standards, and in their maturity around adopting FAIR data principles, geared to making data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Here, MAIN5’s Michiel Stam unpacks the findings of new research which benchmarks the industry’s progress, as well as plans to adopt Pistoia Alliance’s IDMP-Ontology to optimise standardised data use. 

Although ISO IDMP standards, designed to harmonise the way the life sciences industry records and manages data about its products, have been more than a decade in the making, companies’ state of readiness to implement and harness IDMP still varies considerably.